Current trends in nursing education

Definition

Nursing education is a professional education which is consciously and systematically planned and implemented through a discipline and aims the harmonious development of physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and aesthetic abilities of the student in order to render professional nursing care to individuals of any age in the most ideal way.

Current trends in nursing education are:

1. Flexible curriculum: Curriculum should be competent, have a better outcome with complete student participation. It facilitates educational opportunities and overcomes barriers of distance and time.
2. Innovations:  Faculty of nursing should encourage and support innovations in teaching and learning, thus, it helps to improve quality of nursing.
3. Quality assurance: Quality assurance is a process of monitoring and evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency of education delivering to nursing students. It is high time to develop a grading system of nursing colleges based on infrastructure, faculty profile and percentage of student grades.
4. Supporting technology: Technology exerts a great influence on nursing education throughout the planning, implementing and evaluation of it.
5.  High-tech high-touch approach: This approach in nursing care helps the students to deliver patient care with the help of technology cum human touch.
6. Specialized courses in nursing: There are many specialized courses evolved to produce specialized nurses to meet the unexpected demands of the society. 
7. Research: Research in nursing plays a pivotal role to target evidence-based approach in patient care, education and management too. 

Job Satisfaction among Community Health Nurses

Job Satisfaction among Community Health Nurses

Abstract

Introduction: The job dissatisfaction leads to critical shortage of man power in health care in many countries and the employee turn over is increasing day by day in public health sector. There are some other factors such as gender discrimination, Job dissatisfaction, exploitation of women employees as they are the majority, low basic pay, poor working conditions, work load, extended working hours etc increase the rate job dissatisfaction. Keeping these issues in mind, the investigators conducted a study to assess the job dissatisfaction among community health nurses in community health nursing department, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. Methodology: A quantitative approach using descriptive design was used to assess the job satisfaction among community health nurses. The study population consist of 30 community health nurses who are working in Community Health Nursing Department. The tool consisted of demographic data and 20 items which covers the dimensions of nature of job and salary. The descriptive and inferential statistics was used to assess the association between two variables. Results: It is showed that the majority of the community health nurses 66.7% were less than 25 years of age. Among them, 96.7% of the community health nurses were females and 3.3% of them were males. It is showed that 86.7% of the community health nurses are satisfied with their work and 66.7% of them are satisfied with their payment. It is reported that 93.3% of them are satisfied with the quality of professional life with the patients in the community. There is no significant association between the job satisfaction and socio demographic variables of community health nurses in the present study. Conclusion: This study results helps the nurse administrators to focus on determinants of job satisfaction which helps to improve organizational structure, enhance job satisfaction, retain and attract the public health nurse workforce to deliver health care services in the community. 

Keywords: Job satisfaction, public health nurse, community health nurse, job security.
Cite: Ponnambily Jobin, Vathsala Sadan. Job Satisfaction among Community Health Nurses. Int. J. Adv. Nur. Management. 2017; 5(3): 191-194. 

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Aims of nursing education

Definition

Nursing education is a professional education which is consciously and systematically planned and implemented through a discipline and aims the harmonious development of physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and aesthetic abilities of the student in order to render professional nursing care to people of all ages in the best possible manner.

Aims of nursing education

• Aims the harmonious development of physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and aesthetic abilities of the student in order to render professional nursing care
• Helping a student to lead a successful professional and personal life
• Inculcating right attitude towards nursing care 
• Instilling technology based knowledge and skills to provide patient care
• Emphasis on high tech high touch approach, motivating the students to give human care with technology
• Prepare the students to lead a pro active role in society
• Helps the students to go for higher studies
• Helps the students to build a career at the international level
• Helps the student to become a useful member of the society
• Motivates the student to work for welfare of the society
• Prepares nurses for meeting the global demands 

Current trends in education

Current trends in education
Advancements in technology creates a big impact on the process of education. It affects the  development of curriculum and its implementation. Teachers have a great role to change their methods of teaching, based on the needs of the society.
Major trends are:

• focusing on development of the students
• teacher helps them to grow according to his/her abilities
• interested in the overall development of the child
• creating a participatory approach in the teaching methods between student and teacher
• not focusing on spoon feeding method of education
• based on activity centered
• focusing on learning by doing
• based on developing goals to be achieved rather than learning lessons
• focusing more on research
• teacher acts as a motivator to children to do experiments
• preparing the children to search the truth
• supporting creativity
• helping students to solve problems with community participation
• preferring technology based education
• preferring non formal education along with formal education
• focusing more on inventions
• ensuring quality assurance by keeping benchmarks of education
• conducting classes using various technology based A.V.Aids like PPTs, OHPs.
• emergence of foreign universities by offering job oriented higher studies to Indian students